Books and baby scorpions

In the afternoon Esme spotted the mailman at our gate. We
still have no doorbell, so a good thing she did. I went
down and he told me that a package had arrived for me at
the post office. Soon after Esme went out to do some shopping
and to pick up the package, which we both assumed to be more
books.

When she came back it turned out we were right: six more
books from my wish list; thanks to my Perl help in exchange for books service. Maybe some ideas
for your own book wish list?

In the evening I again checked the terrarium of one
scorpion, Vaejovis cf. punctatus, that had gone from view
shortly after we arrived in our new house in Coatepec over
a month ago. I suspected that it was gravid, and was gone
from view to give birth. And when I accidentally moved a
stone I had avoided to move the past week, it turned out
that I was right; a much thinner adult scorpion ran away
from under the stone, and I saw several tiny scorpions
crawling around at the underside of the stone I just had lifted...